New Year's Day Charity Day

Start the year with a winter wander around The Lost Gardens of Heligan, as we open our gates in aid of our chosen charity on New Year’s Day 2025

Normal garden admission charges will apply on this special day with all money raised being donated to our nominated charity of 2025.

For those of our visitors with Heligan Memberships or Heligan Local Passes, we encourage you to make a minimum £2 per person donation to help raise vital funds for this well deserving local charity.

Take a pleasant gentle stroll through the working Victorian Productive Gardens and enticing Pleasure Grounds or stretch your legs down the enchanting Woodland Walk leading on to Heligan’s sub-tropical Jungle. With the winter sun glistening on frosted leaves Heligan is truly an experience for all the senses and becomes a fabulous winter wonderland just waiting to be explored.

With bare branches all around, winter also provides a wonderful opportunity to observe The Lost Garden’s wide diversity of bird life. Woodpeckers, nuthatches and the elusive kingfisher can be enjoyed in the woodlands, whilst winter migrants such as fieldfares and redwings can be viewed over the farmland. With the purpose-built Hide providing an ideal viewing point for grey wagtails, black caps, bramblings, greenfinches and much more feeding directly around the Hide.